348 ALBERT. 



How far infantile beriberi, acquired through nursing the mother, 

 may or does increase mortality in the Philippines is a question to be 

 reserved for the future. What may be confidently affirmed is that the 

 best method of establishing a sound basis for the fight against infant 

 mortality in the Philippines is to commence by revising the form of 

 death certificate used for infants of less than one year in such a manner 

 as to have a statement on the death certificate of each infant under one 

 year of age dying in Manila, of the kind of nourishment which the infant 

 has received during life, as is the practice in many other countries. 



